It is now the turn of Syria’s Druze population to face the danger of standing up to tyranny. But to understand what is happening in Syria, beyond more hideous death and destruction by terrorists of all stripes – and aid and protection provided only by Israel and the IDF – it helps to take a circuitous route.

First, we must understand this: There are people in this world who not only do not agree with the general, liberal, Western view that all sorts of people can live together, but also don’t even want to live together with anyone who doesn’t share their values. Their preferred approach to those people is to conquer and beat them into submission, not to accept them in the hopes of winning them over with rational debate. We know this because proudly illiberal, even tyrannically-minded people consistently take advantage of the generosity and naivete of the liberal West. And the most amazing thing about that is that the illiberal people have been proving their intentions by word and deed for decades. (RELATED: SHOSHANA BRYEN: Zelensky Had No Art, And Now…He Has No Deal)

Iran declared war on Israel and the United States in 1979 and it is not looking for nuclear energy. It lied before, during and  after the JCPOA negotiation – wanting the protection of nuclear weapons – or the threat of them – to forestall the fate of Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine, all of which were stripped of their programs and fell. In pursuit of victory against the West, Iran also armed, trained, and funded Houthis, as well as Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias, and ISIS.

At home, Iranian women have been hung for not wearing a hijab or........

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